Audubon and Reforestamos join forces to conserve forests that support birds

Conserving forests is key to guard life, as they’re dwelling to 80% of the earth’s organic variety. And birds, as an indicator species of the well-being of ecosystems and the environment, discover in them wholesome environments to shelter, feed and reproduce.

With the widespread purpose of selling the conservation of birds and their habitats, corresponding to forests, and fostering native financial improvement within the communities that inhabit the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl volcanoes, the Nationwide Audubon Society and the Popocatépetl volcanoes are working collectively to advertise the conservation of the birds and their habitats, in addition to the native financial improvement of the communities that stay within the space of the volcanoes, the Nationwide Audubon Society -a hemispheric chief in conservation and dedicated to the safety of birds- and Reforestamos Mexico -a civil society group targeted on making certain extra and higher forests for sustainable development- signed final Friday a collaboration settlement that can enable them to construct, in alliance with native communities and ejidos, a group hen tourism venture that can contribute to the conservation of forests and their biodiversity.

Ernesto Herrera, basic director of Reforestamos Mexico emphasised that “hen tourism is a high-impact exercise for conservation and financial improvement of native communities. Mexico is dwelling to greater than 1,100 hen species, representing 11% of the world’s avian variety. Among the many most consultant species in Izta-Popo Nationwide Park are endemic birds in danger such because the boreal flycatcher and Cooper’s hawk. Birdwatching not solely permits the statement of distinctive species, but in addition strengthens the hyperlink between conservation and group improvement, since it’s the native specialists who, along with sharing their information, work actively to guard the forests for the advantage of all.”

Aurelio Ramos, Audubon’s basic director for Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada stated that “Izta-Popo Nationwide Park and its buffer areas, along with the purity of its air and offering water for Mexico Metropolis, benefiting greater than 13 million individuals, is a panorama with a singular potential for group birdwatching. However it is usually virtually 40,000 hectares of forest that function a elementary host for migratory and resident birds. With 120 years of labor with a hemispheric imaginative and prescient and in favor of group profit, Audubon works within the Americas in alliance with native and nationwide companions, corresponding to Reforestamos, contributing its expertise in points corresponding to the event of hen tourism and forest administration.”

Iztaccihuatl-Popocatepetl is a Nationwide Park in Mexico that spans three states: the State of Mexico, Morelos, and Puebla. It’s a protected space identified for its breathtaking views of the long-lasting volcanoes, and coated with lush pine and oak forests, and residential to endemic hen species. As well as, due to its proximity to Mexico Metropolis, it’s a website of nice significance for groundwater recharge and the availability of consuming water to the metropolitan space of the Valley of Mexico.

Birds, guides for conservation

The joint venture will likely be carried out initially as a pilot within the communal properties of San Pedro Ecatzingo and Amecameca, with the opportunity of increasing to San Miguel Atlautla and Santiago Cuautenco, communities which might be a part of the Union for Forestry and Agricultural Improvement of the Valley of Mexico (UDEFAM), shaped in 2019 and which teams 13 agrarian nuclei that combine 3,119 communal and ejidatarios, homeowners of a complete space of 33,209 hectares, positioned across the Nationwide Park within the State of Mexico.

UDEFAM’s companions promote sustainable forest administration actions to handle issues corresponding to unlawful logging and looking, fires, and air pollution because of poor waste administration. Important progress has already been made on this course of, corresponding to acquiring worldwide certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), producing carbon credit, implementing restoration actions, and growing productive initiatives, together with a regional nursery for plant manufacturing and designing nature tourism routes with a group focus.

Fernando Cisneros Velázquez, president of UDEFAM’s board of administrators, added: “Birds, as key indicators of environmental well being, mirror the state of our ecosystem, which is why we have fun the collaboration between Reforestamos and Audubon. From UDEFAM, we reaffirm our dedication to proceed working with strategic allies corresponding to Reforestamos, the Nationwide Union of Neighborhood Forestry Organizations (UNOFOC), and different organizations. We enthusiastically be a part of this collective effort to construct higher residing circumstances for our communities.”

Pedro Pérez Yáñez, Tourism Coordinator of Ecatzingo Expeditions, shared: “We’re excited to know that these alliances are consolidating a proposal that promotes environmental schooling and conservation, which we be a part of. This collaboration seeks to consolidate as a nationwide reference in nature tourism with a group method, highlighting the strategic significance of this panorama that gives key ecosystem companies each domestically and for the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico, together with Mexico Metropolis.”

If you’re a part of a company taken with contributing to this conservation and accountable tourism community, we invite you to get in contact and discover methods to collaborate. For extra details about the regional alliance write to Yamel Anaya, Director of FSC® Worth Chains at Reforestamos Mexico yamel@reforestamos.org

* Reforestamos Mexico is a civil affiliation that since 2002 has been working in alliance with completely different sectors of society: companies, youth, communities, civil society organizations, academia and authorities, to make sure extra and higher forests and promote sustainable improvement in our nation. For extra info, please go to www.reforestamosmexico.org